1920
As everybody knows, Twenty played a lively part in the making of political history through the summer months. Never letting up in his determination to make General Eisenhower President of the United States, Sherm Adams served as floor leader for Ike's candidacy in Chicago. Some politicos credit the outcome largely to Sherm, telling how he worked round the clock, drank a bottle of milk an hour, and finished up in better shape than any of the rest of them. Shortly afterwards he put himself on leave of absence without pay from the governorship of New Hampshire and assumed the appropriate title of chief of staff for the Eisenhower campaign. Said the Boston Globe: "The man whom Ike elevated to his high command as chief of staff is known for his forthright conduct of politics. He will not say yes just to keep folks out of his hair. If the answer is really no, that is what you will get. But if Gov. Adanrs makes you a promise, you may rely upon it." One of the streamer headlines on this particular feature story read: "There's No Side to Sherman Adams; He Never Puts on the Dog." Sherm got his picture in so many different papers so many different times that no clipping agency could pretend to keep track of them.
There were other interesting political sidelights with Twenty connections at the conventions and elsewhere. Tommy Greene, perennial Republican leader in Rhode Island, made his voice heard more than once during the Chicago goings-on, leaving no doubt about the ardor of his support for Taft. A few weeks later, when the Democrats took their televised turn at the interminable polling of delegations, Hub Duffy hove into view with his colleagues from Ohio. Back in Massachusetts Hib Richter, who had been reelected president of the state Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, sought a renewed vote of confidence of another sort by announcing his candidacy for reelection to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Hib has been active in one form of politics or another since 1933.
End of summer saw the gathering of a loyal group of Twenties in New York, who welcomed the opportunity for coupling up their political convictions with their admiration for Classmate Adams. Prugh Sigler, spearheading this activity, got himself the nucleus of a committee consisting of Clint Johnson, CharlieMcGoughran and Hike Newell and set the wheels in motion for reminding Dartmouth men that Governor Adams and General Eisenhower are allies in a common cause. By coincidence, each of the above-mentioned dignitaries had won new eminence in his business during recent months. Prugh has been elected a director of the Magnesium Company of America. Clint took office as President of the Bankers' Association for Foreign Trade when this distinguished group held its annual gathering in June at Bigwin Inn, Lake of Bays, Canada. At that particular moment he and his wife were barely back from an un-Magellanlike circumnavigation of the globe by air, with stops at all of Chemical's Far Eastern correspondent banks between Hawaii and Pakistan. Charlie, "veteran marketer of Sinclair Oil," as the National Petroleum News dubs him, has been elected secretary of the corporation and has likewise been appointed to the newly created position of Director of Personnel for Sinclair and all its subsidiaries. Hike, according to the New York Times, dropped a bombshell in the advertising agency field by leaving the firm of Geyer, Newell & Ganger on June 2 to become president and chief executive officer of the new agency known as Lennen & Newell, Inc., with offices at 17 East 45th St. in New York.
Martha Mansfield Mills, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Charles BurdickMills Jr., was married to William Temple Davis the evening of May 17 in Saint Cornelius Chapel, Governors Island, N. Y. Martha, who was educated at University of Colorado and at Berlin University while Charlie was Chief of Transportation of our Berlin Command, was escorted to the altar by her father. Her husband, a descendant of Jefferson Davis, attended Staunton Military Academy and the New York School of Interior Decoration.
Business took this reporter to San Francisco in June. Abe Winslow, constituting himself the customary one-man welcoming committee, was making his first trip of the season to the High Sierras, where the ravages of a severe winter had nevertheless left his camp undamaged. Also Abe was making plans to get his boy (Dartmouth '49) to Scandinavia for the summer. The Winslows have bought a new home at 31 Charles Hill Road, Orinda, "over the hill from Berkeley," and have moved in bag and baggage to what they tenderly term their "last resting place." Abe reports the return, presumably permanent, of Ed Mating from Hawaii. Ed has filed his new address as 536 Maple St., San Diego, Calif.
The return trip east left barely enough time in Chicago to snatch up a copy of the Tribune and see what the ever-active Mrs. Don MacKay was up to. Ruth was up to plenty. She had just been feted by more than 50 secretaries who were the subjects of her White Collar Girl column during the past year, and her grateful brooding over the event led her to raise the following question: "Aren't we going to need a new name for secretaries before long? Something to distinguish between the girl who takes dictation and the girl who takes charge of taxes, capably handling things while her boss is in Europe, and keeps his office world in order even when the world itself is topsyturvy."
Others in Twenty's feminine contingent had been active during the secretarial absence. Rachel (Mrs. Sherm) Adams spoke for a committee of the wives of all American governors when she made the formal presentation June 26 of the helical fountain on the central plaza of United Nations Headquarters in New York, the $50,000 gift of the school children of the United States. Liz (Mrs. Hal) Bernkopf made a television appearance June 11 to tell the readers of her Boston Globe column where to find the best buys in the markets. Pretty Mrs. Ellis Knowles Jr. (daughter of Hike Newell) worked steadily in the early morning hours pinning Eisenhower buttons on commuters from Rye, N. Y.
Among the significant business success stories of the summer was the vote by W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. of a profit-sharing payment to its employees of 20% of their earnings for the second quarter. Determined to continue letting no grass grow under his feet, President Craig Sheaffer has since announced development of the Snorkel, which will allow fountain pens to breathe while submerged and will usher in a new era of fountain pen filling, resulting in the "mess-proof fountain pen." Another industrial innovation, recorded by Plastics Newsfront, is the light sports car, the Skorpion, made of American Cyanamid's Laminae Resin with Fiberglas reinforcement, built by the Wilro Company of Pasadena, and designed by our own Ralph Roberts... . Thanks to Warren P. Smith '13, we learn of Dick Watts' advancement to the presidency of the Lenawee County Savings Bank in Adrian, Mich., after some years' service as first vicpresident ....Ernie Earley '18 earns our vote of thanks for his clipping of a New YorkTimes item, proclaiming that the (Jim) Chilcott Laboratories are out front in developing the two new drugs which are doing so much to reduce hypertension and control blood pressure.
Clayt Wallace got his picture on the front page of Jim Langley's Concord Monitor when he went up into New Hampshire on behalf of his National Temperance League to partici-pass in the 52nd annual meeting of the N. H. Christian Civic League. Tom Dudley achieved the same spotlight about the same time as a patron at the dance given for Concord Hospital nurses by the medical staff.
With real regret your secretary reports the death of classmate John Colton, long-time resident of Worcester, Mass. The notice in the In Memoriam section of this issue gives the regrettably few details that we have been able to learn about. John's career.
DARTMOUTH'S NEW DEAN: Joe McDonald, Dean of the College and honorary member of the Class of '20, joins Al Cate (1) and the Bidwelis for sociability in the reunion tent last June.
Secretary, Blind Brook Lodge, Rye 17, N. Y. Treasurer, 1 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
